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I think the ugly parking lots of the flats west Bank would better if the ones by Public square doesn't work out. It would really stretch the skyline west and fuse it with the budding skyline of Ohio City. Those living at Thunderbird can easily walk to the west bank as well as the older properties across the river.

Not only has Key Tower aged more gracefully it complements the Terminal Tower exceptionally well. I've never seen two building work so well together ... a kind of "dance" when viewed from various perspectives. Ceasar Pelli is a master architect.

There going to be a lot of foot traffic going thru there once its up and running. The LED sign of the garage facade should light up the place at night like Broadway!

It also ties in that recently completed CSU student housing building (forgot the name) to downtown proper, creating a nice transitional and contiguous wall with the campus district and theater district. Great place to be a student theater actor at CSU!

What is so cool about Towpath Mounds is that it pays homage to the indigenous architecture of the ancient native american mound builders of southern Ohio - the first civilization of the region.

I think the weeds will hold it together once they get established, except for popular footpaths which water runoff will only enhance. They should build steps up to the top to minimize that ... I hope.

i visited the new towpath mounds area along the nearly finished stage three of the towpath trail. Its opening whole new vistas of the Cleveland skyline and will be a valuable amenity for those who live along its path when it eventually reaches the lake. It will provide direct access to Cuyahoga National Park and beyond (to Cincinnati!) with endless biking and hiking for Tremont / Ohio city/ and downtown residences.

Hopefully they will one day they will remove that tacky over-sized chandelier in the middle of the street and just keep the arches.

Great to see some real progress on this eyesore, slowly but surely.

Its good that they demolished Kowloon before a catastrophic fire broke out. Talk about a safety hazard.

The rapid transit alleviates the need for parking to some extent. One can either take the lakefront line or walk from Public Square.

The Lumen will only partially block out the Keith due to the buildings rather skinny and being perpendicular to the street. The low parking lot portion of the Lumen will not block out the Keith very much.

It will be a traffic nightmare if they decide to close Shaker Blvd that bisects the square much like when they closed Superior at Public Square. I'm all for closing it during special events such as the farmer's market and onion festival, which even then hints at the terrible traffic congestion that one would experience if closed permanently.

They should do an outdoor new year celebration.

That would go better with the old building prior to the glass facade. Its going to be weird when the Houston Rockets come to town. They'll feel right at home.

Thanks for correcting me. The recessed, honeycombed windows from street level gave me the impression of being smaller than they actually are. They still remind me of hermetically sealed airplane windows that you can't open. Don't get me wrong I still love Marcel Brauer's brutalist design! Just kind of stuffy to live in.

In addition to the cargo container ships that patrons can practically reach out and touch ... which to my mind is a unique feature of the city ... the added bonus of adjacent freight trains whizzing by the nearby bridge will put on quite a spectacle of commerce to out of town visitors.

Much better than the tiny "airplane windows" that exist at The 9.

I agree. The whole town is an eye sore. I wish it was part of the CVNP and they're continuing on the same path. And I agree, if you do develop it should be low density with large minimal acreage for well to do people that preserves the green space as a wild life corridor. In eastern suburbs of Cleveland where I live the Cleveland Metroparks of North Chagrin Reservation and South Chagrin Reservation is separated by places like Hunting Valley among others that preserve the rural character of the valley. That's the way it should be done in my opinion.

That would be a shame because that golf course links the Sand Run metropark with the Gorge metropark into a contiguous green space. What makes this urban park special is how the cleveland Metropark is linked With Guyahoga National Park that will hopefully link up with Sand Run south of Botzum, provided it isn't developed. This network of linked parks is a major asset and shouldn't be broken up with housing developments which can't be reverted back. I'm all for developing the periphery just not within one of the best urban parks in the country.

Not everyone disliked that building: https://www.emporis.com/awards/2009

The transition from the CSU campus to Playhouse Square will be striking! ...It already is. Most boundaries between neighborhoods is artificial. Not this one.

I think panels of the parking garage beneath the Beacon works well while the mesh of the parking garage of the Weston is god awful.

There is a similar looking building in lower Manhattan that has a more vibrant color scheme.

Thanks for the answer as well to a bizarre aesthetic choice. It seems the architect wants to continue that zigzag theme for one end of the facade to the other thereby making the edge more disorienting to the onlooker. It will be interesting to see how this all works with the final product and whether or not it succeeds. What I like about the design is that it is both unusual yet done within a constrained framework without being over the top. I think it will be one of the more interesting buildings downtown.